Do you really mean the only reason you try to be good is to gain God's approval and reward? That's not morality, that's just sucking up.

Much as we might wish to believe otherwise, universal love and the welfare of the species as a whole are concepts which simply do not make evolutionary sense.

Do not indoctrinate your children. Teach them how to think for themselves, how to evaluate evidence, and how to disagree with you.

Faith is belief without evidence and reason; coincidentally that's also the definition of delusion.

Evolution is just a theory? Well, so is gravity and I don't see you jumping out of buildings.

Such delusions of grandeur to think that a God with a hundred billion galaxies on his mind would give a tuppenny damn who you sleep with, or indeed whether you believe in him.

The less you think, the more you believe.

How thoughtful of God to arrange matters so that, wherever you happen to be born, the local religion always turns out to be the true one.

The universe we observe has precisely the properties we should expect if there is, at bottom, no design, no purpose, no evil, no good, nothing but blind, pitiless indifference.

Science is the poetry of reality.

The theory of evolution by cumulative natural selection is the only theory we know of that is in principle capable of explaining the existence of organized complexity.

Ignorance is the only possible happiness this world has to offer

Light is what we are called to preach. Our lord and saviour called himself light of the world.

There is clearly a constituency that appreciates the message that Google is sending, that it finds the Chinese government's attitude to the Internet and censorship unacceptable.

Fiction is such a world of freedom, it's wonderful. If you want someone to fly, they can fly.

Erm, I don't really have any regrets.

Ultimately, you can only ever write what you know. It's logically and philosophically impossible to write what you don't know.

A book begins with an image or character or situation that I care about deeply.

Whole sight; or all the rest is desolation.

and i wouldn't say no to something sweet.

I watched a film called 'Elephant' recently. Its not stylish in the sense of expensive suits and Italian cars, but the styling on every single character is spot on.